Queer Zine Archive Project

QZAP has been noted by University of Milwaukee professor Joyce Latham as a powerful "response of the queer community to the history, and practice, of marginalization and disregard." QZAP assists with the Milwaukee Zinefest yearly and participates in community programming with the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center. They host local workshops and vend at local events. ==Mission statement==

QZAP began when its founders digitized their personal collection of roughly 350 queer-punk zines and put them in an online database. Through donations, the collection has grown to over 4,500 zines, over 600 of which have been digitized and are freely accessible online. The physical collection is stored in filing cabinets in the founders' Milwaukee home. Miller and Wilde have explained that they digitize zines to further diversify queer stories, stating that they want to make more public "stories aren’t being told in other ways." Their collections policy takes the form of a FAQ that explains what a zine is, how they define queer and queer zines, and where to find zines elsewhere. Donations are accepted by filling out a form and mailing it to them along with the zine. == Use in research ==

QZAP's collection has been mentioned and cited in a wide variety of research, based both on the zines themselves and the act of archiving or digitizing them since zines are traditionally thought of as ephemeral. Their zines have been used to study the needs of queer and trans healthcare and health information, the affective dynamics of digitization, and the ethical implications of archiving zines. ==See also==